Valve refacing device



NOV. 8, 1938. R GAGNE ET 2,136,188

VALVE REFAGING DEVICE Filed May 4, 1956 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Nov. 8, 1938. G. R. GAGNE ET AL 2,136,188

VALVE REFACING DEVICE NOV. 8, 1938. NE ET AL 2,136,188

VALVE REFAQING DEVICE Filed May 4, 1936 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 five/ri ors, AND Gzdeon Ra giza Lon fipr'aker jzorrz l i igig 6.6" .97 95 5 HM-Kym Nov. 8, 1938. G. R GAGNE ET AL VALVE REFACING DEVICE Filed May 4, 1956 5 Sheets-Sheet 4 .Zhverzfors ne and Z022 5 raker da'deon 3.6%

NOV. 8, 1938. G R, GAGNE ET AL 2,136,188

VALVE REFAC ING DEVI CE Filed May 4, 19:56 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 I06 108 H .15. I /2/ I20 I15 //6 l6 Patented Nov. 8, 1938 PATENT OFFIQE VALVE REFACING DEVICE Gideon R. Gagn,

Spraker, Indianapolis,

011 Tools, Inc., Kenosha,

of Delaware Kenosha,

Wis., and Lon 1116., assignors to Snap- Wis., a corporation Application May 4, 1936, Serial No. 77,772

6 Claims.

This invention relates to valve refacing devices and more particularly to improvements in valveseat resurfacing devices, although certain features thereof may be employed with equal advantage for other purposes It contemplates more especially the provision of a valve-seat resurfacing device that has a wide range of adjustment for different sizes and types of valves used primarily in internal combustion engines.

Numerous types of valve refacing devices have heretofore been proposed, but these have not proven entirely satisfactory in one manner or another nor do they embody an advantageous range of adjustment and flexibility that is highly desirable to render such effective for all valves of difierent sizes and types that are utilized in commercial practice. Then, too, a valve-seat resurfacing device should be instantaneously adjustable and accurate in its operation so as to produce uniform results without entailing much time, effort or any appreciable skill.

One object of the present invention is to simplify the construction and improve the operation of devices of the character mentioned.

Another object is to provide an improved valve seat resurfacing device that is simple in construction and entails minimum time and skill in its adjustment and operation on valves of different sizes and types.

Still another object is to provide a valve refacing device that is compact, self-contained, and portable to enable the refacing of valves of different sizes and types with uniformity of result, accuracy and without entailing any appreciable skill or time.

A further object is to provide a novel valve clamping and rotating device in conjunction with a valve seat refacing wheel to render the operation thereof simple, accurate and devoid of any requirement for the application of any unusual skill.

A still further object is to provide a valve refacing device having a power actuated grinding wheel in conjunction with improved instrumentalities for clamping and manipulating valves to assume a variety of positions depending upon the type, size and desired valve-seat angle to be resurfaced thereon.

Still a further object is to provide improved clamping, rotating and angular adjustment means for valves in order to accomplish valve seat refacing with minimum skill, time and effort.

An additional object is to provide an improved valve resurfacing device that embodies power actuated grinding and valve turning expedients in combination with adjustment to accommodate valves of different sizes and valve seat inclinations.

Still an additional object is to provide power actuated valve rotating means in combination with a rotating grinding wheel so as to enable operative contact therebetween to effect improved valve resurfacing.

Other objects and advantages will appear from the following description of an illustrative embodiment of the present invention.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a front view in elevation of the device embodying features of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the device shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an end view of the device shown in Figures 1 and 2 Figure 4 is a sectional view in elevation taken substantially along line IVIV of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary sectional view in elevation taken substantially along line V-V of Figure 1.

Figure 6 is a sectional view in elevation taken substantially along line VIVI of Figure 1.

Figure "I is a sectional view of a clamping device taken substantially along line VII-VII of Figure 2.

Figure 8 is a sectional view of the rotating member taken substantially along line VIII- VIII of Figure 2.

Figure 9 is a sectional view taken substantially along line IXIX of Figure 8.

Figure 10 is a fragmentary plan view of the valve clamping mechanism showing the valve in a position for refacing the extremity of the valve stem.

Figure 11 is a perspective view of a grinding wheel dressing device which is designed for attachment in place of the valve to be resurfaced.

Figure 12 is a plan view of a modified embodiment of the present invention with novel means in combination therewith to rotate the valve as well as the grinding wheel.

Figure 13 is a fragmentary side view in elevation of the device shown in Figure 12, parts thereof being broken away to clarify the showing.

Figure 14 is a sectional view taken substantially along line XIVXIV of Figure 12.

Figure 15 is a sectional view taken substantially along line XV-XV of Figure 12.

The structure selected for illustration comprises a frame l0 molded or otherwise shaped to present a base II having a suitable number of 55 depending lugs |2 to sustain the frame l0 upon a table or other surface wherever the device is to be utilized to the best advantage. As shown, the base IE] is shaped to provide a substantially rectangular portion l3 which has an upwardly diverging portion or boss !4 terminating in a fiat horizontal plane surface l5 to serve as a mount and bracket for an electric motor 6. The electric motor l6 has, in this instance, a correspondingly shaped and sized plane surface |1 along the transverse median line thereof to conform in area and extent with the bracket surface l5 which comprises a part of the hollow boss |4 so as to receive fasteners such as screws I8 through the bottom thereof to engage the complemental surface |1 comprising a part of the electric motor housing I6.

The electric motor l6 has its armature shaft l9 extending along the longitudinal median line of the base II to support a circular grinding wheel 26 which is attached for rotation therewith by means of a threaded nut 2| and the customary discs 22 and 23 disposed on both sides of the grinding wheel 20. It will be observed that the grinding wheel 20 is mounted for rotation in a position above an extended portion 24 of the base H that is, in this instance, formed integrally with the rectangular portion l3 to provide a low platform to secure valve clamping and rotating instrumentalities as will appear more fully hereinafter. It is worthy of note that the low platform 24 has a flat top surface 25 to which is attached the desired valve supporting and clamping expedients to be presently described.

To this end, the flat supporting surface 25 presents diverging ridges 21 and 28 formed integral therewith along a longitudinal median line extending in the direction of the armature shaft I9 to reciprocally guide a carriage 29 as will appear more fully hereinafter. The inclined guide ridge 21 cooperates with a correspondingly inclined rib 36 depending from and formed integral with the carriage 29 so that its edge 3| will contact with a slightly up-raised portion 32 formed on the flat platform surface 25 to serve as a support therefor. Another rib 33 depends angularly downward from the carriage 29 so that its edge 34 contacts the upraised portion 32 for cooperation with a gib or wedge block 35 that rests between the inclined guide ridges 28 and the rib 33 formed as a part of the carriage 29. The gib 35 is attached to the carriage 29 by a screw 35' that enables its adjustment to compensate for wear from time to time. The carriage 29, in this instance, conforms in shape and size with the platform 24 of the base member II, and is displaceable longitudinally relative to the motor shaft |9 for guided movement along the guide member 26 toward and from the grinding wheel 26.

This is accomplished in the present embodiment by means of a rod 36 which has one extremity 31 in telescopic engagement with a correspondingly sized bore 38 provided in a solid side Wall 39 formed on the carriage 29. As shown, the rod 36 projects between the diverging ridges 21 and 28 of the substantially V-shaped guide member 26 for movement relative thereto while its other extremity 39 is telescopically received for reciprocal support in a bore 40 provided in a solid portion 4| comprising an integral part of the upstanding base member l4 beneath the exterior confines thereof. A threaded stud 42 is provided for threaded engagement with the extremity 31 of the rod 36 to enable exteriorly accessible screwdriver adjustment thereof relative to the wall 39 of the carriage 29, thereby varying the position of the latter relative to the rod 36.

Reciprocation of the carriage 29 is effected by means of a handle 43 which is attached to a transverse stub-shaft 44 journaled in bearings 45 comprising, in this instance, an integral part of the upstanding base portion l4. A lever 46 is fixed to shaft 44 beneath the upstanding boss portion is and between the bearings 45, it being provided with a furcated extremity 41 defining a slot 43 (Figure 4) that cooperates with a pin 49 anchored to the rod 36 so that reciprocation of the latter will be effected responsive to oscillating the handle 43 to displace the carriage 29 toward and from the electric motor |6. It is worthy of note that the lever 46 is also furcated to provide a notch 50 (Figure 5) to freely accommodate the rod 36 so as to offer no obstruction thereto.

Now, then, the carriage 29 has another carriage 5| superposed thereon to move with and in a direction transversely of the carriage 29. To this end, an upstanding transversely extending substantially V-shaped guide member 52 is provided on the carriage 29 and, in this instance, is formed integral therewith. The guide member 52 has one of its inclined ridges cooperating with an inclined rib 53 depending from the top surface of the carriage 5| to coact with the inclined confronting side of the guide member 52. The edge of the rib 53 serves as a support therefor in contact with an up-raised ridge 54 formed on the top surface of the carriage 29. Then, too, an inclined depending rib 55 is formed integrally with the carriage 5| to contact with an up-raised ridge 56 formed on the top surface of the carriage 29 to serve as a slldable support for the carriage 5|. A gib or wedge block 51 is interposed between the inclined rib 53 and the other inclined side of the guide member 52 to efl'ect transverse reciprocal guidance of the carriage 5| and to enable compensation for wear which is rendered possible by adjusting the exteriorly accessible threaded stud 58 (Figure 2) that extends through the end wall of the carriage 5| to engage the gib or wedge block 51 and render such movable relative thereto. Another stud 58 projects through the top surface of the carriage 5| to serve as a lock for the adjustable gib 51 to preclude accidental movement of the screw 58 or gib 51.

A displacing mechanism for the carriage 5| comprises, in this instance, a rod 59 that has an extremity 60 in threaded engagement with a wall 6| of the carriage 5| for relative adjustment therewith. The rod 59 is journaled in an upstanding bracket 62 comprising a. part of the carriage 29 and a hand knob 63 is attached to the extremity thereof to enable its manipulation and effect the transverse displacement of the carriage 5| with the instrumentalities for resurfacing valves mounted thereon as will appear more fully hereinafter. An instrumental mounting plate comprising a quadrant or sector 64 is pivoted at the apex 65 thereof by means of a threaded stud 66 which is mounted in a carriage 5| at a point proximate to the grinding wheel 20. An arcuate ridge 61 is formed on the surface of the carriage 5| to cooperate with a depending ridge 68 formed on the quadrant 64 to contact therewith and maintain the latter in a rotary adjustable position relative to its pivot 66.

In the present embodiment, the quadrant 64 is provided with an upstanding or raised boss 69 that has substantially V-shaped lugs or guide 76 groove 19 and 1| milled or otherwise out therein to present a support for an elongated member such as stem I2 of a valve 13 of any standard or approved construction. The substantially V- shaped lugs 1|) and 1| open or extend laterally to receive the stem 12 of the valve 13 so that its axis is in a direction normally inclined to the flat surface of the grinding wheel 20. In the present embodiment, the normal angularity is 45 when the quadrant 64 is in its initial or normal position. The valve stem 12 is maintained in the int-shaped lugs 19 and 1| by means of an arcuate plate clamp 14 which is of substantially rectangular configuration and is provided with an aperture therethrough to receive a bolt I5. The bolt 15 extends perpendicularly through the quadrant boss 69 in a direction normal to the valve stem 13 to hold the latter in the V-shaped lugs 10 and 'II responsive to a nut "5 that is in threaded engagement with the extremity 11 of the bolt 75, thereby holding the valve stem 12 in notches of the lugs 10 and II for resilient contact therewith owing to the urge of the spring t8 that envelops the bolt 15 between the boss 69 and the plate 14.

The resilient clamping of the valve stem 13 enables its rotation responsive toa crank handle I! that terminates in an enlarged circular extremity for receiving the reduced shank 8| of a bearing 82 therethrough. The reduced bearing shank 8| is in telescopic association with a correspondingly sized bore 93 provided in the extremity 89 of the handle member 19. Now, then, an upstanding plate 84 is attached to the boss 69 of the quadrant 64 by means of fasteners 85,

it having an enlarged aperture or bore 86 extending therethrough to receive the substantially smaller shank 8| of the bearing 82 to enable radial displacement of the latter together with its handle member 19 relative to the plate 84. A set-screw 81 extends radially through the wall of the handle extremity B9 and the shank 8| of the bearing 82 to retain these parts in assembled relation with the plate 84 disposed therebetween as well as to engage the stem 12 of the valve 13 to effect the rotation thereof responsive to the manipulation of the crank handle 19. It will be observed that the bore 88 of the bearing 8| is substantially larger than the ordinary stem E2 of valves 13 to accommodate the largest sizes thereof and the difference in size between the aperture 86 and the plate 84 as compared to the external diameter of the bearing shank 8|, allows for a valve stem 12 of varying size being held centrally by the V-shaped brackets is and H responsive to the clamping of the plate 14 which is drawn tight by the nut 16 that engages the threaded bolt extremity 11.

It will be apparent that the clamping of the valve stem 12 in the V-shaped blocks HI aand ll places the valve head 89 in the desired position so that its peripheral valve seat 99 will be parallel to the peripheral edge of the grinding wheel 29. This would be the case where the angularity of the valve seat 90 is 45, but in valves having valve seats 99 of other angularities, adjustment in the angular clamping position of the stem 12 is effected by adjusting the position of the quadrant 64 by manipulating the pivot screw 66. Consequently, the valve seat edge 90 may be placed in parallel confronting alignment with the peripheral edge of the grinding wheel 20 irrespecti-ve of its angularity, there being calibrations 9| on the peripheral wall of the carriage 5| to cooperate with an indicator 92 on the adjacent edge of the quadrant 64 to determine and indicate the angularity of the latter with respect to the carriage 5|.

Consequently, with the valve 13 properly clamped, it may be rotated responsive to turning the handle crank 19 while the handle member 43 is manipulated to bring the valve seat 90 in contacting alignment with the peripheral edge of the grinding wheel 20. Accurate re-surfacing of the peripheral valve seat 9|] is capable of accomplishment with minimum effort, without entailing much time, or requiring any special skill. If the peripheral valve seat 99 is wider than the peripheral edge of the grinding wheel 20, the handle member 43 may be oscillated to and fro for insuring uniform grinding contact at every portion of the peripheral valve seat 90 while it is being rotated responsive to the handle member 19.

It is to be noted that the quadrant B4 is held in adjusted angular position by a stud 93 having a knurled head 94. The stud 93 is resiliently mounted in the valve support bracket 69 to normally urge its threaded extremity 95 downwardly in correspondingly threaded cavities 96 that are provided in the arcuate ridge 61 to correspond with the graduated positions 9| and to serve as indexing means therefor. With the cooperation of the quadrant pivot 66, the stud 93 holds the quadrant 64 in adjusted position. Another pair of V-shaped brackets or slots 91 and 98 are provided in the upstanding boss 69 along the top edge thereof in linear alignment for maintaining the valve stem 12 in a position normal to the surface of the grinding wheel 20 (see Figure 10). This enables resurfacing at the extremity 99 of the valve stem 12 against the flat surface of the grinding wheel 20. To dress the grinding Wheel 29, a diamond stud H10 in the mount ||H is clamped in position by its hexagonal shank "12 being substituted for the valve stem 12, and the handle 43 is then oscillated to provide a new pcripheral edge on the grinding wheel 20.

In the modified embodiment shown in Figures 12 to 15 inclusive, the manual valve rotating member or handle 19 with its circular bearing 89 is dispensed with, and a collar 89 substituted therefor to envelop a bearing shank 8| for connection thereto by means of a threaded stud 81 preferably having a screw driver engaging slot H13 provided in the extremity thereof. This affords the rotation of the collar 80 with the bearing 82 through the medium of the shank 8| owing to the rotation of a worm-wheel |04 that is journalled to idle on a tubular shank I05 of the bearing shank 9| that extends laterally from the plate 84'. The plate 84' is attached to the upstanding boss 69 of the quadrant 54' by means of fasteners 85'. The tubular bearing I05 has an enlarged bore 86' extending therethrough to receive the substantially smaller shank 8| of the bearing 82' and to enable radial displacement of the latter together with its collar 89' relative to the plate 84. The set screw 81 extends radially through the wall of the collar 80' of the bearing shank 8| to retain these parts in assembled relation with the plate 84' disposed therebetween as well as to engage the stem 12' of the valve 83 to effect the rotation thereof responsive to a power driven worm I06 that is in meshing engagement with the worm-wheel I04.

The worm I06 is carried by a shaft Ill'l journalled in spaced bearings I08 and I09. The bearings m8 and I09 are, in this instance, formed integral with the plate 84 to sustain the worm I00 in fixed meshing relation with the wormwheel I04 that rotates relative to the tubular shank I05 serving as its bearing. The wormwheel I04 is retained in assembled association over the tubular shank I05 and between the plate 84' of the collar owing to the connection of the latter with the bearing shank BI and With the stud 01'. It is to be observed that rotation of the valve stem I2 is effected responsive to the rotation of the worm-wheel I04 that has a laterally projecting lug IIO disposed in the path of a confronting lug III extending from and formed integral with the collar 00.

Consequently rotation of the Worm-Wheel I04 in a clockwise direction (viewed from Figures 13 and 15) will cause corresponding rotation of the collar 00' and the valve stem 12 that is engaged by the stud 81' which is detachably connected therewith by its manipulation with a screw driver or other common tool designed for that purpose. Rotation of the worm I06 is effected, in this instance, by means of a flexible shaft II2 which is preferably of hexagonal crosssection for driving connection with a correspondingly shaped tubular extremity of the worm shaft I01. Connection between the worm shaft I 01 and the flexible shaft H2 is effected by means of a threaded stud H3. The flexible shaft H2 is telescopically received within a tubular shaft II 4 which has a correspondingly shaped rectangular bore II5 to rotatively engage the flexible shaft II2 While permitting its longitudinal displacement therein so that the quadrant 64' may be rotated relative to its pivot 66' and still maintain the driving connection between the worm I06 and the driving tubular shaft I I4,

The driving tubular shaft H4 is journalled in bearings H6 and II! that are formed integral with brackets H8 and H9, respectively, for attachment to the frame I0 and more particularly, in this instance, to its upstanding boss I4 and the adjacent platform 25' that are described in detail with reference to the embodiments of the invention shown in Figures 1 to 11 inclusive. The tubular shaft H4 projects beyond the bearing II1 to carry a pulley I20 attached thereto for rotation therewith. The pulley I20 has a peripheral groove for guiding a belt l2l thereover in peripheral engagement with a comparatively smaller pulley I22 carried by a rearward projecting extremity I23 of the motor armature shaft I9. The pulley I22 is much smaller in diameter than the comparatively larger pulley I20 so as to substantially reduce the speed of rotation of the tubular shaft II4 that imparts corresponding rotation to the flexible shaft I I 2 to rotate the worm I06 which is in meshing engagement with the comparatively larger Worm-wheel I04 to rotate the valve stem 12' at substantially lesser speeds than the normal speed of rotation of the motor IS.

The other features and parts of the preferred modified embodiment shown in Figures 12 to 15 inclusive are identical with the structural features described in connection with the embodiment disclosed in Figures 1 to 11 inclusive that have been described in detail. Consequently the description will sufiice for the modified embodiment as the remaining parts that have not been specifically referred to in connection with the power actuated valve embodiment disclosed in Figures 12 to 15 as distinguished from the hand valve embodiment disclosed in Figures 1 to 11 inclusive.

With the arrangement of parts above described in connection with Figures 1 to 11 inclusive, the transverse position of the carriage 5| is adjustable by manipulating the hand knob 63 so as to bring the valve seat in contact with the periphery of the grinding wheel 20 while its stem I2 is clamped in position as described supra. The carriage 29 is reciprocable with the carriage 5| in the direction of the armature shaft I9 of the motor I6, this being responsive to the manipulation of the handle member 43. The angular position of the valve stem 12 is adjustable by pivotally displacing the quadrant 64 about its pivot 66 after the indexing and securing stud 93 has been disengaged from its cooperating cavity 95, and rotation of the valve stem I2 with its head 89 is effected by rotating the handle crank 19. Thus a very simple, compact and exceedingly flexible valve refacing device has been provided which is accurate, entails little time, and results in the uniform resurfacing of valves without any special skill.

The power actuated valve embodiment shown in Figures 12 to 15 inclusive operates substantially the same except that the handle crank I9 is substituted by the collar 80 and its associated parts comprising the worm-wheel I04, the worm I06, the flexible shaft II2, the tubular shaft H4 and the pulleys I20-I22 that render all of these instrumentalities responsive to the motor I6. imparted to the valve stem I2 while the grinding wheel 20' is directly rotated at a substantially higher speed by the motor I6.

Various changes may be made in the embodiment of the invention herein specifically described without departing from or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention or any features thereof, and nothing herein shall be construed as limitations upon the invention, its concept or structural embodiment as to the whole or any part thereof except as defined in the appended claims.

We claim:

1. In a portable valve refacing device, the combination with a frame, of an electric motor mounted on said frame, a grinding wheel carried by said motor for rotation therewith, a valve support movably mounted on said frame, for adjustably sustaining a valve with its seat against said grinding wheel, means for displacing said valve support longitudinally of the grinding wheel axis, means for displacing said valve support transversely of the grinding wheel axis, means for enabling the angular displacement of said valve support relative to said grinding wheel, means for indexing and maintaining the angular position of said valve support, and means for rotating said valve.

2. In a portable valve refacing device, the combination with a frame, of an electric motor mounted on said frame, a grinding wheel carried by said motor for rotation therewith, a valve support movably mounted on said frame, for adjustably sustaining a valve with its seat against said grinding wheel, means for enabling the angular displacement of said valve support relative to said grinding wheel, means for indexing and maintaining the angular position of said valve support, and means for rotating said valve.

3. In a portable valve refacing device, the combination with a frame, of an electric motor mounted on said frame, a grinding wheel carried by said motor for rotation therewith, a valve support movably mounted on said frame, for adjustably sustaining a valve with its seat a ainst Consequently, uniform power rotation is [ill said grinding wheel, means for displacing said valve support longitudinally of the grinding wheel axis, means for enabling the angular displacement of said valve support relative to said grinding wheel, means for indexing and maintaining the angular position of said valve support, and means for rotating said valve.

4. In a portable valve refacing device, the combination with a frame, of a grinding wheel rotatively mounted on said frame, a support on said frame for sustaining a valve relative to said grinding wheel, clamping means for rotatively securing the valve to said support, a crank mechanism rotatively associated with said support for attachment to the stem of a valve mounted in said support, said crank mechanism having an axial bore of greater diameter than the largest size valve stem to be rotated therewith, and means on said crank mechanism to engage a valve stem to eiiect the rotation thereof.

5. In a portable valve refacing device, the combination with a frame, of an electric motor mounted on said frame, a grinding wheel carried by said motor for rotation therewith, a valve support mounted on said frame for sustaining a valve with its seat against said grinding wheel, radially adjustable means for rotating said valve, said radially cranking means journalled in said support, said cranking means having an axial bore of greater diameter than the largest size valve stem to be rotated therewith, and means in said crank mechanism to engage a valve stem.

6. In a portable valve refacing device, the combination with a frame, of an electric motor mounted on said frame, a grinding wheel carried by said motor for rotation therewith, a valve support movably mounted on said frame, for adjustably sustaining a valve with its seat against said grinding wheel, means for displacing said valve support longitudinally of the grinding wheel axis, means for displacing said valve support transversely of the grind-wheel axis, radially adjustable cranking means for rotating said valve, said crank mechanism having an axial bore of greater diameter than the largest size valve stem to be rotated therewith, and means on said crank mechanism to engage a valve stem.

GIDEON R. GAGNE. LON SPEAKER. 

